Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge .
2 I relished the moment during a rehearsal once when Mel Brooks suddenly boomed at the researcher , ‘ Judith — go to my dressing-room and put on that thing I bought you ! ’
3 Scott merely glared at the DI .
4 Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst .
5 She sometimes felt that were Scott not sitting at the studio news desk , face made up and hair sprayed , ready to roll and clearly in control — why , then the news might never happen .
6 Donna just stared at the box .
7 Ellen now worked at an adventure playground — the Christabel Focus — for underprivileged girls in an ethnically mixed section of the city .
8 Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed .
9 Now the fact is , if you read Totem and Taboo , whatever you think , and how ever preposterous the idea may seem , what Freud actually says at the end of that book is not that , what Freud says is , there is an in innate , inborn sense of guilt about murdering near relatives like fathers and committing incest .
10 While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window .
11 FIRST TO FALL DEVON MALCOLM scatters the stumps of Ramiz Raja to give England early hope at the Oval .
12 Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad .
13 It seems Spain has taken over from Italy as chief innovator on the modern scene : ‘ The 1990s will see Spain firmly positioned at the top of the international market , ’ declares Robert Smith .
14 but Vietnam joined Laos to torpedo Malaysia 's attempts to have the conference renew the endorsement of ZOPFAN previously made at the Algiers Summit Conference .
15 Trent hardly looked at the compass .
16 talking of rejects I was I was conned into going down to Stoke yesterday to look at the Portmeirion seconds shop .
17 Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets .
18 What survives , outside MGM 's archives , of the sequence in which Astaire and Charisse separately rehearse at the barre , is just a few black-and-white stills .
19 While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile .
20 While the ebullient Tim chunders on about anything — switching from astute frontman to village idiot at the twist of a phrase — bassist Martin balefully stares at the floor looking ever more intense and occasionally thundering through a paragraph of bile .
21 Chairman Garry Gibson yesterday laughed at the prospect not merely of promotion , but the possibility of passing the Magpies on the way .
22 WASHINGTON D.C. Originally seen at the Taft Museum , Cincinnati , the travelling exhibition ‘ Cavaliers and Cardinals : nineteenth-century French anecdotal paintings ’ can now be seen at the Corcoran Gallery until 8 November .
23 As she and Adam left , Buzz turned back to see Elinor silently looking at the ceiling .
24 They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her .
25 Minton repeatedly jibed at the art business .
26 Mandeville viciously kicked at the snow with the toe of his boot .
27 Hills 's lease at Manton also terminates at the end of next year , and he could return to his original yard in Lambourn which he still owns and where his son John trains .
28 Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door .
29 Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 .
30 Kersey arrived on time and found Marks already seated at a table by the window with a pint in front of him .
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